Posts by angusnicolson

Your Tax Return for 2016 is now available on Altinn and new rules apply to filing for this year. These changes are hugely important and need to be adhered to by anyone and everyone who has worked in Norway in 2016. Please circulate this to anyone who may be affected so they are aware of…

Nicolson Accountancy – Winners: Best in Norwegian Tax – UK Wealth and Finance International Magazine has chosen Nicolson Accountancy, who run the Norway-Tax.co.uk website, as the winners of their prestigious award, and this is what they had to say about us. Nicolson Accountancy is a multi award-winning accountancy practice providing accounting, tax and business advice…

Hold your breath, but it looks like the 2013 tax assessments are being uploaded to Altinn tonight. When the assessments arrive, please check that they look as you would expect and that there have been no changes between the information supplied and the final tax assessments. If there are changes, you may want to contact…

Tax puzzler from a client Today’s tax puzzler proved to be quite a challenge to disentangle and communicate to the client, but we got there for the client. This might give you some flavour of what we can do for our clients. The client is a UK national now living and married in Norway The…

A report in the NewsInEnglish.no carries a very concerning report which strongly implies that the Wealth Tax will be extended to British and Dutch people working in Norway. The full story can be found here, and it starts as below. Starting this year, some foreigners who live in their home country but work in Norway…

A number of our clients are reporting that they have been to the Tax Office in Norway to prove their identity as advised on previous correspondence from Skatteetaten. The latest update is that the tax office are apparently being advised by the tax officers that you do not need to attend for registration if: You…

Introduction of ID checks from 1 April for foreign workers employed by foreign enterprises The Norwegian Tax Administration has introduced identity checks for foreign workers who are to carry out work in Norway in order to actively prevent people from operating under false identities. Foreign workers who have previously been given a tax deduction card…